What am I looking at with this plumbing work?
People inspecting newly installed plumbing find confusing, left-open work with exposed boxing and questioned fitting orientations that makes them wonder what is actually going on. This lack of finished installation or clear communication leaves homeowners questioning the quality of the work and whether a joiner or trade will eventually return to fix it.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1cutting out and replacing incorrect fittings
- 2hiring a professional plumber to redo the work
- 3Waiting for a joiner or tradesperson to turn up and finish the boxing or wall work.
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“What the hell is actually going on here??”source ↗
“The boxing being left off is the only thing wrong there and my guess is there will be a joiner turn up at some point to sort it.”source ↗
“Also this is how they left the boxing 🫣”source ↗
Where this came up
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